a gathering of tumbleweeds
hesitated, trembling aside the highway’s edge

until an odd,
hot-breathed little wind scampered by

and sent these airy, bouncing skeletons
of a dry and blue new mexico

somersaulting, racing
through the dusty roads and fields

of desert wintertime

(2004, Los Lunas, New Mexico)

Rev. Rebecca Guile Hudson

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-gathering-of-tumbleweeds/